Scandal Absolu
Tuberose dominates the opening with a creamy, slightly waxy white-floral push; gardenia layers in beside it for a heavier, almost suntan-lotion lushness.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 accords.
Every perfume in Sillage is represented as a distribution across canonical accord slugs — a lingua franca for scent. Two fragrances with overlapping fingerprints are scent-twins, even if they share no literal note.
- Tuberose70
- Vanilla55
- Soft Spicy50
- White Floral
The note pyramid
- Tuberose
- Sandalwood
- Gardenia
- Sandalwood
- Tuberose
- Vanilla
- Patchouli
- Fig
By the editors · 2 min readTuberose dominates the opening with a creamy, slightly waxy white-floral push; gardenia layers in beside it for a heavier, almost suntan-lotion lushness. There's no sharp citrus or green lift up top — the composition starts in full bloom.
Fig and patchouli give the middle a soft, milky-resinous body. The drydown settles around sandalwood and vanilla with a slow, warm hold; the patchouli keeps a faint earth smudge under the sweetness so it never reads strictly gourmand.
Dense and tropical. Best for warm evenings, date wear, and indoor settings where the projection won't crowd anyone.
Scent twins
Factual metadata (name, house, year, notes) is seeded from public datasets. The editorial reading and scent fingerprint are written by Claude against our house style — none of it is scraped prose. Read our methodology.
